System Software Statistics

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Active Directory	57	Down -14 places-14	£40,000	+6.66%	2,809 2.64%	783
Docker	105	Down -56 places-56	£67,500	-6.89%	1,889 1.78%	1,288
VMware Infrastructure	220	Down -40 places-40	£50,000	+7.52%	935 0.88%	328
Hyper-V	276	Down -78 places-78	£42,500	+6.25%	731 0.69%	183
Firmware	355	No change0	£60,000	+7.14%	557 0.52%	449
Virtual Machines	554	Down -74 places-74	£70,000	+27.27%	244 0.23%	110
vSphere	585	Down -236 places-236	£65,000	+18.18%	211 0.20%	75
Embedded Firmware	639	Down -110 places-110	£60,000	+9.09%	156 0.15%	122
Virtual Desktop	659	Down -130 places-130	£50,000	+13.63%	136 0.13%	57
VMware NSX	700	Down -304 places-304	£80,000	+6.66%	95 0.089%	45
VMware ESXi	709	Down -194 places-194	£65,000	+18.18%	86 0.081%	64
Terminal Server	713	Down -42 places-42	£41,250	-10.32%	82 0.077%
BitLocker	753	Down -110 places-110	£38,000	-3.79%	42 0.040%	5
Virtual Servers	754	Down -159 places-159	£42,620	-5.29%	41 0.039%	25
IAG	757	Down -86 places-86	£65,000	-13.33%	38 0.036%	26
KVM	758	Down -88 places-88	£62,500	-10.71%	37 0.035%	14
Microsoft Virtual Server	772	Down -100 places-100	£37,000	-11.90%	23 0.022%	9
Oracle RAC	775	Down -101 places-101	£75,000	+7.14%	20 0.019%	2
VMware Server	778	Down -103 places-103	£60,000	-14.28%	17 0.016%	2
vCloud	779	Down -106 places-106	£85,000	+17.24%	16 0.015%	1
Squid	781	Down -115 places-115	£67,500	-	14 0.013%	9
Slurm Workload Manager	781	Down -104 places-104	£62,500	-	14 0.013%	36
Citrix Hypervisor	783	Down -122 places-122	£70,000	-	12 0.011%	5
Terminal Services	784	Down -136 places-136	£55,000	+29.41%	11 0.010%	3